On the recordJuly 14, 2011
I would say absolutely yes. If you are a family in Wyoming, I don't care if you are living in Casper or living in Kemmerer, either way you know you need to live within some construct of how much is coming in, how much you can spend--live within a budget. Families have budgets. They live within their budgets. The State of Wyoming has a budget. We have a balanced budget component of our constitution. It not only says we have to have a budget, it says we have to balance it. If you do not have a budget to begin with, I cannot understand how you can balance it. Is it any surprise that we are $14 trillion in debt and we are borrowing $4 billion a day, $2 million a minute in this country, and we are borrowing a lot of it from China? It would seem we ought to be following the law--have a budget and then live within the budget, and it needs to be a responsible budget consistent with what is coming in.
